The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ...

Harvey’s frames portray a convergence of human and natural action, not to synthesize or balance the two but to show the ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the first ...

A story that begins with three animals riding in a balloon ends with the discovery of protons impacting our atmosphere with ...

Wallpaper has evolved from being an old-fashioned and cumbersome feature of home decor to one of the most versatile and ...

They came up with the idea for a planetarium, blending research with entertainment—academics with the public's desire to learn about outer space ... a star plates, pictures of the stars ...

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An image of the Milky Way captured by the MeerKAT radio telescope array puts the James Webb Space Telescope’s image of the Sagittarius C region in context. The MeerKAT image spans 1,000 light ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features part of the Small Magellanic Cloud. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray) What it is: The Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy ...

For the first time, the "Mission MushVroom" experiment on SpaceX's Fram2 mission will attempt to grow mushrooms in space. Left: Zinnmann via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0. Right ...

This becomes important as sometime the stay in outer space gets extended, something that happened with Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore whose short mission turned into a 9-month long wait. They ...

Capturing images of Neptune's auroras had remained out of reach until the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) turned its powerful eye towards the icy planet. "Turns out, actually imaging the ...